Accidentally Born in the ‘60s Chapter 36:

Soon it snowed again, 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, and it is the easiest to freeze when the weather is cold. bad 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 it won't be too late to go out after the spring is warm. The conditions will be better, and if you can take care of it, you can take care of it as much as we can, like we were confinement and hiding in Tibet, I don’t know how many diseases have been left behind.”

Osmanthus said: "I listen to the milk, but the meat bun saves trouble. I am also bored in the house. No milk will bring the fabric to the house. I will make clothes for you. I'm busy, so I can't find time."

"It's okay, your mother has already drawn the size, you can just do it directly." Mrs. Li went to the front room to get the fabric and put it on the osmanthus kang, and instructed two more words: "The front and rear of the window are glued. , 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 to knock off the snow on Zhen Zhen's hat and padded jacket, 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?"

Zhen Zhen heated her body beside the stove, then she climbed onto the kang and leaned next to the meat bun, and kissed his chubby cheek: "I miss my eldest nephew."

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 will stay in sister-in-law's house if it's all right, let's talk, sister-in-law will tell you story."

Wang Sufen and Mrs. Li didn't have time in front of them. Seeing that Zhen Zhen was willing to stay in the back room, they could go with her. Before Mrs. Li left, Hai asked worriedly: "I'll pick you up when you have dinner. Don't go out on your own, it's hard to get your head stuck in such a big snow."

Zhen Zhen obediently agreed, and when Mrs. Li left, she turned around and lay on the hot kang holding the meat bun's little hand and chatted with Osmanthus: "Sister-in-law, you have been bored in the house for more than a month. ?"

Osmanthus sat on the kang tip and opened the clothes, took out scissors and cut it along the line drawn on it: "It's not boring, when the meat bun was just born, my brother and I couldn't stop day and night, sleep well. Sleeping is a luxury. After half a month, he slept longer, and your elder brother and I can talk and talk during the day."

“What are you talking about?” Zhen Zhen asked Osmanthus curiously while lying on the kang.

Osmanthus smiled and glanced at Zhen Zhen: "Little girl has inquired a lot." However, she looked at Zhen Zhen's sweet smile and said to her carefully: "Your brother tell us about their school. and work 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.” Gui Hua 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, she will know that going to school is a very interesting part of thing."

Zhen Zhen silently calculated her age, she was born in the early 1960s, and she was not yet of school age when the Cultural Revolution arrived. She estimated that she was destined to be a dropout child.

Days go by, and in a blink of an eye, it's the New Year's Day. For the first time in so many years, the family has such a complete gathering. In addition, there is enough food, and there is a big fat pig. The faces of several children who ate all of them became fatter.

After fifteen, it was time for the Li Mulin family to 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 didn't know whether to laugh or cry when he saw his nephew hanging on his body, so he could only rub his head embarrassedly: "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 change it." Li Mingxin looked up at his father, and cried out with a wow.

Li Mulin dragged his son out with a dark face: "You just despise your father?"

Li Mingxin snorted sadly: "We don't have roasted rabbits at home."

Li Mulin stuffed this son, who didn't want his father in order to roast rabbits, into the cart, and turned back to say goodbye to Mrs. Li: "Mother, we're leaving now, and we'll come back in summer."

Mr. Li smiled and nodded: "In summer, I brought their brothers and let them and Mingnan go swimming in the big river, catch fish or something, and it's delicious when grilled." Li Mingxin began to cry again, Li Mulin looked at the old lady and felt that she was doing it on purpose.

After saying goodbye to my mother and Li Muwu, Li Mulin said to Li Muwen, "Big 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'll take my 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 desk desperately to make up for their 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 at the Beicha area. If it was sent to Bingcheng, Li Musen would have no way to go. Another Zhang Chunhua had shallow eyelids and a 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?"

Old Mrs. Li smoked the cigarette bag: "I can change some money, I can't do it when I have less money, I will buy some things for Zhen Zhen, if you know more about what things are good, just change the ready-made ones and send them home. One, if there is a sewing plane ticket for me, I will buy one when I change the money, and then sew and mend clothes, etc., the sewing machine is still very good.”

"Mother don't worry, it's just that if you change the money, you can't send it back in one lump sum. It's too eye-catching." Li Muwen thought about it and said, "Send some to mother on a monthly basis, and wait for me to do this or two. When I come back next year, I will bring the rest of the money to my mother.”

Old Mrs. 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 went through the content of high school for him again, and focused on teaching Mingxi's weaker areas. After Mingxi arrived at Bingcheng, he passed it smoothly. The transfer test of Bingcheng No. 6 Middle School.

Li Muwen helped Mingxi go through the admission and boarding procedures. Taking advantage of the two days before the start of school, he took him to Li Mulin's house to find out the door, and asked him to take care of Mingxi more often and do more good things when the children came to the house. Eat to improve 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 sent a package to Mrs. Li. Thing, then reluctantly left his hometown and set foot on the train to Fujian.

The weather is getting warmer, and Mingbei was fed up by this big fat pig for the Chinese New Year. He urged Mrs. Li to bring back another pig. About 20 fertilized eggs came out and put them on the west kang in the back room to prepare their own chickens to hatch.

I don't know if the braised chicken nuggets are my father's love or I am bored. I have to go to the backyard and circle the house twice every two days. Although I can't see the situation in the house, I just need to go under the window. Standing proud.

Zhen Zhen looked at the braised chicken nuggets with her head held high, she couldn't help but sneered at it: "It's all eggs from chicken soup, potatoes and chicken, you look at it for you."

The little mung bean with braised chicken nuggets glanced at Xia Zhen Zhen: "They can lay eggs every day, but without me, would there be so many kinds of eggs for you to hatch chicks? It's not me, I'm old, you look Look at your father working hard for more than 20 years to give birth to your four children. I have only been working hard 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 each bite with relish, and looked at it with a smirk: "My milk has already saved enough eggs, in the future this hen will have nothing to do with you when laying eggs. I'm sorry."

The braised chicken nuggets were caught off guard, so I took a whole grasshopper in it, stretched my neck for a long time and struggled to swallow it, Zhen Zhen laughed and ran back, the braised chicken nuggets were left in a hurry The grasshopper didn't eat it, fluttering its wings and chasing Zhen Zhen: "If you don't bring this, people have finally changed their ideals in life, so it doesn't count if they can be casual."

When they got to the front yard, Mrs. Li was instructing Mingnan and Mingbei to build a new chicken coop with wood. The braised chicken nuggets were hit hard, and they drooped their wings and cowardly went 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 is really a good time for all things to grow. Mrs. Li successfully took out twenty chicks and gave half of them to the third child Liu Musen's family. Just a few days after raising them, Liu Xiulan found out that she was pregnant again. 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 nowhere else except for buying some meat and non-staple food every month. After spending money, the gold bars that 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 from beginning to end. They all wore new clothes, and the children around liked 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 chickens in the yard with her white and plump meat buns. 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 to take the pot in her hand and poured all the wild vegetables into the chicken trough, she moved towards Osmanthus Sweet smile: "sister-in-law, what do we have for lunch?"

Osmanthus looked at Zhen Zhen's white and tender smiling face and laughed 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, then picked up a bucket and carried a small net out: "I'll go to the big river to see if I can catch fish and shrimp?"

Once Mrs. Li heard this, she quickly came out of the house: "You can't carry the bucket, 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, which makes people laugh."

"How old is the treasure of milk." Mrs. Li couldn't help breaking up and grabbed the bucket in Zhen Zhen's hand: "The milk is just a granddaughter like you, what is not a treasure?"

The meat bun ran over with his chubby legs, and reached out to hug Zhen Zhen's thigh: "Auntie, the 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 your fourth uncle's holiday on Sunday, let me He's going behind your back."

The meat bun flattened his mouth, but he was still obedient and did not cry, Zhen Zhen patted his head and shouted into the yard, "Come over to play with the meat bun with braised chicken nuggets."

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. Its beautiful tail began to scratch, and the braised chicken nuggets helplessly accompany 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 rooster running around the yard, she couldn't help laughing: "Damn, you can see our big rooster can understand human nature, our family Zhen Zhen can say anything. I understand."

Old Mrs. Li took a puff of her cigarette: "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 out of the house.

Although the weather is fine today, 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 I got to the river, I didn't see many people.

Li Mingzhong has grown a lot in recent years. He looks tall and mighty and can scare a lot of people, but Zhen Zhen always thinks that Li Mingzhong is tall and doesn't have a brain. Except for his incomparable hunting performance, other times except for 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, she was splashed with water, she rolled up her trousers and 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, revealing his big white teeth, stretched out his two front limbs and kept digging for 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 after it, I'll just put some fish and shrimp here."

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 out into the water, and fished it out in a few minutes, A net full of live prawns.

Mr. Li filled the bucket with some water and looked puzzled at the shrimps jumping in it: "Why do you like shrimp so much, and you have to peel off the skin and remove the head and there is not much meat."

"It's delicious, just boil it with water." As Zhen Zhen spoke, she caught another net of prawns, and Mrs. Li lowered her head and looked at it. It weighed two or three kilograms. Just as I was about to say that it was almost enough to eat, I saw Zhen Zhen suddenly stood up and looked excitedly in Li Mingzhong's direction.