Accidentally Born in the ‘60s: (Catch bugs)

I figured out the crux of the six-month-old tangle, and Mingdong's mood instantly opened up. He jumped off the parallel bars excitedly, and pulled Mingxi to run around the playground for two laps, so as to stretch his heart. Affection.

Mingxi was dragged by Mingdong for two steps, then squatted on the ground and couldn't move: "I've been on the train for a few days, how can I be crazy with you, you have to run and run, and go back to the dormitory after running. Go to bed, we have to go to the fourth uncle's house tomorrow."

Mingdong smirked twice: "Mingxi, do you think I'm stupid, in fact, I can fall in love with Osmanthus first and then get married, so it's not an arranged marriage. You said that I didn't figure it out long ago. Aren't you just delaying things here?"

Mingxi yawned and rubbed his eyes: "I didn't think you were stupid before, but now I find that you are not very clever sometimes, and you are the same as Mingbei when you are stupid. I said brother, if you Don't read those messy books when you have time, or I'll go home and tell the milk."

"Why do you tell Nian everything?" Ming Dong glared at him: "You are so old, can you stop being so naive? Besides, don't let Nian worry about such trivial matters."

"It's okay if you don't tell the milk, hurry back to the dormitory and let me sleep, I'm sleepy." Mingxi yawned again, urging Mingdong to go back to the dormitory, took a basin of hot water and soaked his feet, fell asleep on the bed.

Mingdong was not sleepy at this time. When he thought of officially starting his relationship with Osmanthus, he always felt that he had to prepare well. He glanced at his face against the glass, and when he saw his hair was messed up by himself, he hurriedly went to wash his hair with water, and even shaved his beard for the first time, took out the white shirt from the box and sprinkled some on it. Water, smoothed out the folds, and hung it on the window to dry.

Zhang Hai, who slept in Li Mingdong's upper bunk, watched Mingdong toss around all night and couldn't help teasing him: "I'm washing my hair and drying my shirts. Are you going on a blind date tomorrow?"

Before Mingdong could answer, Meng Weishan, who brought back his luggage for Mingdong in the afternoon, interjected, "I don't think it's a blind date, but a date, right?" He winked at Mingdong: "Follow your brother. Who is that girl who got up? I look at her with unusual eyes?"

As the saying goes, the old master was beaten with random fists. Mingxi's simple, straightforward and rude advice made Mingdong come to his senses. When he heard Meng Weishan say that Osmanthus had an unusual look at him, his heart beat a little, with a hint of joy on his face, but he tried to pretend to be calm: "Oh, is it? What kind of look is it? I didn't notice it."

"You can just pretend." Meng Weishan rolled his eyes at him: "The girl who looks at you clearly likes you." Meng Weishan bumped Ming Dong with his shoulder and asked gossip: "The girl and you What's the matter? Is it your daughter-in-law? Have you been through the door?"

Mingdong didn't hold back the joy for a while, and replied a little embarrassedly: "I haven't been there yet. I'll go back and get married during the winter vacation."

Meng Weishan was happy, sitting next to Ming Dong and hugging his shoulders: "You have such a good life, and the wife you married is so beautiful!"

Mingdong blushed instantly to the base of his neck. He kicked Meng Weishan aside with one foot, turned and sat in front of the table and grabbed a book. His face was full of joy.

Meng Weishan burst out laughing: "I'll just say it, you can't hide my eyes from me, you can see it as a young man who is in love."

"Talking about love?" As soon as Ming Dong heard the word he was most concerned about recently, he couldn't help but ask Meng Weishan: "How do you talk about this love?"

"If you ask me, you're asking the right person." Meng Weishan sat next to Ming Dong and passed on his experience very carefully: "When I was chasing my daughter-in-law..."

"Wait wait!" Zhang Hai jumped off the top bunk and looked at him in disbelief: "Even you are married?"

"How funny, why can't I get married? I married my daughter-in-law as soon as I graduated from high school." Meng Weishan shook his hair and made a dashing gesture: "Look at me, I'm good at learning, good character and good looks. The most important thing is to always be sincere to your daughter-in-law, so that you can marry a daughter-in-law."

Meng Weishan sat next to Mingdong and introduced his experience: "I'll tell you, the important thing in a relationship is two people, don't bring your brother on a date, go shopping, etc., it will affect the relationship between the two of you. Yeah."

Ming Dong glanced at Ming Xi who was sleeping soundly and nodded seriously: "You are right, I will throw him away when I see my fourth uncle."

Meng Weishan nodded and gave him a "teachable" look: "Second, to create romance." Looking at Ming Dong and Zhang Hai's blank faces, Meng Weishan stood up and gently Chanting: "When the sun first rises, take her to the mountains to enjoy the sunrise and feel the morning light of hope together; when the sunset is the most beautiful, take her to the riverside for a walk and bathe in the golden light together; when the full moon rises , take her to the rooftop to recite poetry, to see the stars that fill the sky; at..."

"You can pull it down..." Zhang Hai couldn't help interrupting him: "This place is far from the mountains and not too close to the river. Why is it more tiring to talk about love than to catch a train? Besides, the moon is very special. When it's bright, there are no stars, I don't know the word moonlight and stars are rare!"

Mingdong does not agree with Zhang Hai's concept: "I think Weishan said it very well, the scene is really beautiful, as for the mountains and rivers, it doesn't matter, we just go out of our hometown, I'll make up this paragraph when I get home. Weishan, you continue to say."

Meng Weishan was interrupted by Zhang Hai for a few poems that he managed to suffocate. He suddenly forgot the remaining lines, so he could only say lightly: "Then you take her shopping, go to a movie or something, Promote and promote feelings."

Mingdong nodded and closed the book in his hand: "Just do it!"

In the early morning of the next day, Osmanthus, who had already woken up and got dressed, hurriedly opened the door and went out to wash when she heard the voice of the girls in the dormitory rustling into her clothes. When she came back from cleaning up, the girls in the dormitory cleaned up and walked out one by one with towels and washbasins. When there was no one in the room, she quickly took the rag and mop, and cleaned up the inside of the dormitory.

When the female students came back, they were embarrassed to see that Osmanthus had tidy up the dormitory: "Osmanthus, you are a guest, why are you so embarrassed to ask you to help us clean up?"

"I have nothing to do, and living here will cause you trouble. You have to do something." Osmanthus smiled: "You are welcome."

"You're being too polite. In fact, you don't need to help us clean up the dormitory. Like our classmates, relatives often come to spend the night. This is a normal thing. You don't need to be embarrassed." A tall girl smiled. After a while, I picked a book from the table and prepared to take it out.

Meng Shuran looked at Osmanthus and her classmates chatting and laughing, and she couldn't help but think of Li Mingdong again, and she always felt less reconciled. She bit her lip and asked slightly hostilely, "Osmanthus, do you know the words?"

"I know!" Osmanthus replied calmly: "I also went to school for a few years. After I can't wait for school, Mingdong has taught me for a few years."

Meng Shuran was blocked for a while, and her face was a little ugly. She looked at Osmanthus, and she always felt that her thoughts were invisible in front of her. This feeling made her a little embarrassed and annoyed, and she burst out with anger in an instant: " With all due respect, if you don't go to school, you probably won't have anything to talk about with Li Mingdong, right?"

Osmanthus looked at her in amazement, with a trace of puzzlement on her face: "Why do you always ask about me and Brother Mingdong?" Osmanthus looked at Meng Shuran with a peaceful smile, and waited. When the eyes of other classmates also fell, they said unhurriedly: "Let you worry about us, brother Ming Dong and I grew up together, and there are many topics that can be exchanged, usually when he comes home from vacation. We always have more to say."

"Osmanthus, come down to eat!" Li Mingdong's voice sounded just right from downstairs, Osmanthus walked quickly to the window, stuck her head out, and showed a bright smile: "Brother Mingdong, wait for me, I'll be right here. down."

"You go downstairs slowly, don't worry." Ming Dongchao waved Osmanthus, thinking that this was the first time she lived upstairs, and gave an uneasy command.

Meng Shuran's face changed from blue to red, from red to pale, Osmanthus turned around and nodded to her with a smile: "Brother Ming Dong asked me to go out for breakfast, we will go to him after dinner. Fourth uncle's house, I'm going to buy some things for the wedding in the afternoon, and I have to trouble you to pick me up in the evening, and I may have to stay here for a few days."

Meng Shuran looked at Osmanthus and didn't know how to answer, but the girl who picked Osmanthus up yesterday smiled and said, "Don't worry, just wait until you come back at night and shout, I'll pick you up, by the way, you remember my name. Right? My name is Li Xian."

"I'll trouble you, Sister Li Xian." Osmanthus smiled and thanked, and said goodbye to the girls in the dormitory one by one, and then hurried off.

Li Xian listened to Osmanthus' footsteps and walked away, and then gave Osmanthus a lukewarm look: "There are only eight girls in our class, so don't smear our faces with any shameful things. "

Meng Shuran was annoyed and angry, her eyes were red with anger: "What do you mean by that?"

"You know what it means." Li Xian sneered: "Li Mingdong has a fiancée, and he is about to get married, so don't bother us with anything useless."

"I don't know what you mean." Meng Shuran said angrily, "I'm not familiar with classmate Li Mingdong, but I was just curious to ask Osmanthus. Why are you so angry?"

"It's best if you don't know each other well, so you don't have to cause trouble." Li Xian left with the book in his arms. The rest of the girls hurriedly went to the library to read books, so they all left, leaving only Meng Shuran and Meng Shuran. Chen Ge, a girl who is usually better than her.

Chen Ge looked at Meng Shuran and shed tears, so he took a towel and handed it to her: "Li Xian's words are ugly, but the reason is that reason. Besides, you just went to college, so you don't have to rush to find it. object."

Meng Shuran wiped her tears, but said nothing, Chen Ge poured her a jar of water, and comforted her by saying, "There are a lot of boys in our school, you can always find a good partner in the four and a half years you go to university, Don't worry too much."

Meng Shuran took a sip of water, got up and walked to the window, looking at the back of Li Mingdong, who had just walked out not too far, and saw him and Osmanthus walking side by side.

"How did you sleep last night?" Ming Dong looked at Osmanthus and asked.

"Very good, your classmates are also very good, take special care of me." Osmanthus answered with a smile, with a little excitement in her tone: "This is the first time I live in such a high building, old man Excited."

Listening to Guihua's heartfelt laughter, Mingdong couldn't help laughing along: "I thought you would be scared. When we first went to school, a girl who lived on the second floor was scared and cried. In the end, the teacher had no choice but to transfer her to the first floor."

"Then she specified that it wasn't the girl from Beicha. It was the tree that was dozens of meters on the Red Pine Mountain. The big girl and the young man swish when they climbed up. That one is much taller than this building." Osmanthus was curious as she walked. Looking at the scenery of the campus, looking at the students who came and went with books between them, there was a hint of envy in his tone: "It's great to be able to go to college."

Ming Dong glanced at Osmanthus and remembered the scene when she insisted on giving up her junior high school after graduation from elementary school. At that time, she didn't think too much about it when she was young, but she just thought she didn't want to study. In fact, when I think about it now, the young Osmanthus was only worried that spending money on reading and eating for nothing every day would make my milk and mother unhappy, so I gave up reading.

Sighing, Mingdong was a little annoyed. If he had figured out at the time, he should have persuaded Osmanthus more. The milk and mother didn't care about it at all, but they didn't know how to read, so Osmanthus dropped out of school. .

Looking at Ming Dong, who was in a somewhat depressed mood, Osmanthus couldn't help but ask, "Brother Ming Dong, what's the matter with you?"

"It's fine!" Since the past cannot be changed, Ming Dong no longer thinks about those things, he looked at Osmanthus and smiled: "Actually, you can read even if you don't go to school, do you recognize the characters you were taught before? "

Osmanthus nodded: "I kept all the letters you sent home, and I can read them down."

Mingdong glanced at her: "I'll find some books for you when I look back. You can take a look at it when you're free at home. It's just like going to school."

"Have you used an old book?" Osmanthus looked at Ming Dong expectantly.

Ming Dong was a little embarrassed by her fiery eyes, and he laughed foolishly: "Well, it's a Chinese textbook that was used in junior high school and high school."

Osmanthus nodded excitedly. Her eyes were as bright as if there were stars hidden inside. Ming Dong couldn't take his eyes off of him. Just as he was about to say something, an unpleasant voice interrupted. Came in: "Brother, you don't know how many years those books are, can you still find them? Why don't you just let Sister Osmanthus use mine."

Mingdong glared at Mingxi, and suddenly felt that what Meng Weishan said was too right: you need two people to fall in love, and one more person is an eyesore!

***

After breakfast, Mingdong took Mingxi and Osmanthus to Li Mulin's house with bacon, hazel mushrooms and pine nuts picked from the mountains. Li Mulin is a line patrol worker and often shifts shifts, but Ming Dong has figured out his work schedule in the morning, and every time he comes, he can get stuck on his days off.

"Fourth Uncle, are you at home?" Ming Dong knocked on the door and shouted again.

"Come, come!" Li Mulin, who was chopping firewood, quickly put down his axe and walked away: "Mingdong is here?"

As soon as the door opened, Mingxi and Osmanthus hurriedly called out, "Fourth Uncle."

Seeing Mingxi and Osmanthus, Li Mulin was surprised and asked, "Why are you here? How is your milk at home? How is the family? This year's supply Not enough food?"

"It's all good. Before I came, my mother asked me to send a message to the fourth uncle, saying that the fourth uncle should go back early this winter." Osmanthus put down the burden of the hazel mushroom in her hand.

"What's the matter? What's going on at home?" Li Mulin couldn't help but ask, Osmanthus looked at Mingdong and didn't know what to say. After a night of trying to understand that marriage and love are not in conflict, Ming Dong said it in a down-to-earth manner: "I will have a wedding with Osmanthus in winter."

Osmanthus was a pleasant surprise to hear this. She thought she and Mingdong were still discussing their marriage, and she was thinking about how to talk to Mingdong. Unexpectedly, Mingdong admitted this in a blink of an eye. thing.

"This is a big happy event. I was thinking that your grandmother should marry you both." Li Mulin said cheerfully: "Hurry up and drink water for a while, and come all the way here."

Mingxi ran ahead with bacon and pine nuts: "Fourth Uncle, my milk brought you pickled wild boar."

"That's great, we haven't bought meat for a while, who beat this wild boar?" Li Mulin took the things and walked in while asking.

Mingxi's legs trembled when she heard this question: "...I don't want to say it."

Ming Dong followed the back of Fourth Uncle and Ming Xi a few steps in, and suddenly realized that Osmanthus was not following. He looked back and saw Osmanthus standing there looking at him smirking, and he couldn't help laughing. Mingdong walked over and touched Osmanthus' head, feeling the warmth in his chest: "Come in, silly girl."

***

In the fall, every family in Beicha is busy, harvesting crops, picking wild vegetables, and doing countless things all day long. The same is true of the old Li family, before the crops were ripened by Zhen Zhen and collected secretly, they never went to the fields to see them, until Zhen Zhen's third aunt Liu Xiulan came over and hurriedly asked: "Second sister-in-law, the crops you planted on the mountain Why don't you harvest it, I just went to see that the crops are growing."

Wang Sufen jumped off the kang as soon as she heard it, and Mrs. Li gave her a calm look, and said in a dignified manner: "This is not at home with Osmanthus and Osmanthus, we are busy with other work, not yet. Pour out the empty space to collect."

Liu Xiulan is anxious: "It's more urgent than harvesting crops. Every household is nervous this year. What if there is an immoral person who steals corn in the middle of the night?"

Old Mrs. Li tapped the edge of the kang with her cigarette bag, her face was calm: "It's hard to find it in the fast daytime at my house, and it's dark and blind in the mountains and forests. If anyone really dares to touch it like that, I'll take him. ."

Liu Xiulan sat on the kang and wiped the sweat from her forehead: "Yes, as soon as I saw that no one accepted it, I was stunned, and I forgot about it. But mother, don't accept it too late. , what if it rains in a few days."

"Well, I know." Mrs. Li nodded, "I'll ask Mingbei to find his father in a while, and I'll collect it in the afternoon."

"Okay, if you count me, I won't stay here anymore. The land in my house has not been repossessed." Liu Xiulan raised her legs and was about to leave. Wang Sufen hurriedly ran after her: "It's almost noon, why don't you call Mu Sen and the children over for dinner?"

"No, I've already steamed the pancakes in the morning." Liu Xiulan waved her hands without looking back: "You guys hurry up, you have a lot of work to do."

Send away Liu Xiulan, Wang Sufen ran back a few steps, and carefully closed the door: "Mother, didn't we collect all the crops, why did they grow again? Did they prune them? ?"

Mrs. Li is also not sure about this: "I can't, can I? Didn't she take her up the mountain again? Besides, how can she know that it's our family's soon after such a distance?"

“But, apart from Zhen Zhen, there should be no one else who has this ability.” Wang Sufen said quickly.

Mr. Li turned her head to look at Zhen Zhen, who was practicing walking with the kang piano, and waved to her: "Bao, come to the milk."

As soon as Zhen Zhen turned her head back, she sat down on the kang with her legs soft, and Mrs. Li held her in her arms: "Bao, do you know what happened to the crops on our mountain?"

Zhen Zhen sat on Mrs. Li's lap and ate straight at her: "I'm full!"

"Oh, my good granddaughter, do you want to make grandma full?" When Mrs. Li saw Zhen Zhen's pretty little appearance, her heart was numb: "Is it just that I'm tired?"

Zhen Zhen looked at her short legs that couldn't stand up yet, remembered her age hard, decided to talk less and play more stupid. She happily climbed down from Mrs. Li's lap and continued to practice walking while holding the kangqin.

I didn't eat much of the crops I harvested before, but this time I can harvest another batch. Even three meals a day are enough for Lao Li's family to eat for one winter. When Mrs. Li thought about it, she felt full of energy, and wished to go to the mountain to harvest crops immediately.

Wang Sufen looked at Mrs. Li's fidgety look, and quickly persuaded her, "It's not too late, I'll go to steam some dry food first, so that Mu Wu and Mingnan and Mingbei will be full and ready to work. "

"Evaporated cake, full of rice noodles, without sweet potato noodles, and stewed with bacon and cabbage to make them eat happily." When Mrs. Li thought of another crop of mature crops, she immediately generous.

Wang Sufen responded, found a piece of soda and came out to make dough, and made a piece of dough mixed with white flour for Zhen Zhen alone. When Mrs. Li came out, she saw that she had picked up two eggs from the basket and handed it over: "For Zhen Zhen. Zhen put two eggs in it, did you not drink the milk you brought back in the morning? Pour half a bottle into it. Our Zhen Zhen has a thin throat and she can't swallow anything that is too rough."

When Mingnan and Mingbei dragged the firewood from the mountain, they smelled the aroma of dry food in the cauldron, and their mouth watered: "Mom, what did you steam today? Why is it so fragrant?"

"Fa cake!" Wang Sufen replied without raising her head while cutting the bacon: "It's made of whole rice noodles."

Since Mingbei can remember, his family has never eaten dry food with whole rice flour. He drooled while squatting in front of the cauldron, and said cheerfully: "Mom, when will we be able to eat dry food with all white flour in our family? Huh? That designation is more fragrant than this hair cake."

"I can't be fooled if I'm full, I still want to eat white noodles, I'm really embarrassed." Wang Sufen rolled her eyes at him and kicked his **** with her toes: "Don't stand in the way, hurry to the grain store and call you Dad is back. This grain store hasn’t come to supply grain for a few months, and it doesn’t pay wages, so what are you doing there?”

Mingbei looked at the cauldron reluctantly, and then ran out quickly. When the two men came back out of breath, lunch was already ready.

Zhen Zhen sat at the kang table, happily chewing the fragrant and soft rabbit-shaped hair cake with her four little teeth, Li Mingbei poked Zhen Zhen's forehead: "Silly girl, this is a fake rabbit , wait for my brother to go up the mountain, I will give you a real rabbit to eat."

Wang Sufen glanced at him: "Don't fix that useless thing, hurry up to eat and go up the mountain with your father to harvest the crops. You work hard, your milk said that she will give you dry food for the past few days. Put meat in it hard."

"That's fine!" Li Mingbei picked up a piece of hair cake, put it in his mouth and took a big bite.

Turn potatoes, harvest sweet potatoes, and break corn. The people of Beicha's generation are pleasantly surprised to find that despite the lack of rain this year, the crops are growing exceptionally vigorous. .

"The harvest is good, does it mean that the year is getting better?"

"Yes, these hard days are over."

"Our forest area can grow such good crops, and the surrounding area is definitely not bad. I see that there will be no shortage of food supplies to eat next year."