Chapter 4: Young Man 04

Time is like an arrow, and in a blink of an eye, it is finally approaching the end of the year, and Yi Qingfeng, who has been on winter vacation, has long been watching the arrival of these days. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

On this day, Qingfeng's mother was cleaning bed sheets, quilt covers and other items in front of the house, and Yi Qingfeng stepped forward and said, "Mom, didn't you say that you were going to kill pigs today?"

Qingfeng's mother said, "Do you want to eat pork?"

Yi Qingfeng nodded honestly, and Qingfeng's mother said, "The pig will not be killed until the afternoon." ”

Yi Qingfeng sighed and said with a little disappointment: "Mom, then I'll go and play with Jiang Xi and them." ”

Qingfeng's mother said: "Don't overdo it, remember to come back early for dinner." ”

Qingfeng nodded, and then ran towards Jiang Xi's house with a puff of smoke.

After lunch, Qingfeng's father called the neighbors to help prepare to kill the pig, he opened the pigsty door and drove out a white and strong pig, the pig came out and saw a group of people around it seemed to feel something wrong, it "whooped" a few times and then pulled out of the legs and rushed towards the crowd, several strong and powerful men had already prepared, they rushed up and pressed the pig to the ground and couldn't move

Qingfeng's father quickly took out the rope and tied the pig's four feet into a strong knot, then took out a wooden stick with a thick bowl mouth and passed it straight between the pig's legs, and then carried the pig to the place where it was ready to be slaughtered with another man.

With a terrible cry came, soon, a big white pig was broken into pieces of fresh pork under the butcher's skillful technique, Yi Qingfeng watched the butcher wielding a bright big knife on the board for a burst of slashing in his heart, at this time Qingfeng's mother shouted in front of the house: "Qingfeng, don't look at it, come and help me wash these tables and chairs." ”

Yi Qingfeng agreed and quickly ran over, he moved all the benches and chairs in the house according to his mother's instructions, and then followed his mother's example to clean all the benches up and down with a rag, Qingfeng's mother looked at Yi Qingfeng's serious and careful appearance and smiled: "Yes, it's quite decent, wring out the rag and wipe it again after washing." ”

Yi Qingfeng said: "Okay." Saying that he continued to work carefully, after a while, under the joint efforts of Qingfeng's mother and Yi Qingfeng, the stools, chairs, etc. at home have all become clean and give people a sense of refreshment, at this time Qingfeng's father happened to carry a basket of cut pork towards the house, Yi Qingfeng looked at a basket full of fresh pork, and immediately appeared in his mind a variety of delicious pork dishes such as stew, braised and oil pressed, Qingfeng's mother seemed to have guessed her son's thoughts, she put the rag into the water to wash while saying, "Do you want to eat pork?" ”

Yi Qingfeng said: "Yes, how can I usually have the opportunity to eat?"

Qingfeng's mother said: "Okay, when we get the hygiene at home right, I'll go and do it for you, okay?"

Yi Qingfeng nodded happily and then worked harder.

The next day was Chinese New Year's Eve, after eating the most sumptuous Chinese New Year's Eve dinner of the year, Yi Qingfeng climbed into the warm quilt early to watch TV, it was Chinese New Year's Eve, the TV was playing a celebratory evening program, Yi Qingfeng followed his parents and fell asleep after watching for a while.

He was awakened in his sleep by the constant sound of firecrackers in the distance, which he knew was the annual custom of every family to celebrate the arrival of the first day of the new year.

At this time, Yi Qingfeng was very excited, as if he was carrying a little rabbit in his heart, he quietly got up from the bed, put on brand new clothes, and ran out of the house excitedly.

As soon as the sky was bright, the white expanse outside the house seemed to be covered with a veil, Yi Qingfeng walked on the road cautiously, and suddenly there was a sound of firecrackers behind him, he was startled and hurriedly looked back, only to see Jiang Xi standing behind him in new clothes and said with a smile: "Qingfeng, where are you going?"

Yi Qingfeng said: "I don't know, where are you going?"

Jiang Xi said: "Let's go pick up firecrackers, shall we?"

Yi Qingfeng said: "Where to pick it up?"

Jiang Xi said: "Stupid, isn't every house just set off firecrackers in front of every house now, there must be some that haven't sounded, can't we just play when we pick them up?"

Yi Qingfeng suddenly realized: "Yes, let's go." With that, the two of them walked briskly towards the door of a nearby house.

Sure enough, as Jiang Xi expected, the two of them quickly picked up some firecrackers that were not ignited in the scattered firecracker crumbs, Jiang Xi put a firecracker on the ground, and then lit the lead of the firecracker with an incense stick in his hand, the lead quickly ignited and then made a "bang" sound, Jiang Xi said proudly: "Haha, free firecrackers, fun, right?"

Not to be outdone, Yi Qingfeng quickly took out a picked up firecracker and said, "Look at me." Saying that, he put the firecracker fuse directly on the incense and lit it, and then quickly threw it out, and the firecracker exploded in mid-air with a "bang", Jiang Xi said: "You are amazing, be careful that if you throw it slowly, you will blow it up." ”

Yi Qingfeng said nonchalantly: "It's okay, I'm sure." He continued to play with firecrackers.

The two were having a good time, Liu Ronghua's burly figure suddenly appeared, he shouted as he walked: "New Year, New Year" said and lit a string of firecrackers in his hand and threw it into the air, after a "crackling" sound, his face showed an extremely happy smile, Yi Qingfeng and Jiang Xi looked at the string of mini firecrackers about ten centimeters long in Liu Ronghua's hand and said in surprise: "Where did such short firecrackers come from?"

Liu Ronghua said proudly: "Of course I bought it." ”

Jiang Xi said eagerly: "How much money will I buy." Saying that, he quickly snatched a bunch from Liu Ronghua's hand and put it away, the three of them frolicked for a while, the sky gradually brightened, Yi Qingfeng remembered his parents' instructions to go home to pay New Year's greetings to his grandfather and grandmother, so he said goodbye to Jiang Xi and Liu Ronghua and walked towards home quickly.

Winter turns to spring, after a warm spring breeze blows, the barren land is covered with green again, flocks of swallows stand on the telephone poles in front of every house in the village, crying happily, and a few old locust trees at the entrance of the village also withered and regrow dense leaves like spring, everything looks so vibrant.

This day is the weekend, Yi Qingfeng's parents went out early to do farm work after breakfast, Yi Qingfeng stood alone in the yard in front of the door and looked at the swallows on the telephone pole in a daze, at this time Yi Qinglian came out and said: "Qingfeng, what are you stunned early in the morning?"

Yi Qingfeng said: "Where are you going to play?"

Yi Qinglian said: "Grandma said let's go to the back mountain with her to pick mushrooms, will you go?"

Yi Qingfeng smiled happily and said, "Go, of course I go, I'm worried that I have nothing to do." As he spoke, he hurried towards the house.

Yi Qingfeng walked on the mountain path with a bamboo basket in his hand, and his grandmother said: "Qingfeng go slowly, be careful not to fall." ”

Yi Qingfeng said: "It's okay, grandma, do you think we can pick a lot of mushrooms today?"

Grandma said: "I should be able to pick a lot, it just rained two days ago, and the mushrooms are growing fast." ”。

Soon, the three of them came to a dense forest, although the grandmother was old, but the action was still very agile, she saw a thick pine tree quickly walked over, and then bent down to pull out some weeds at the root of the pine tree, as if by magic, clusters of fresh and tender mushrooms of different sizes came into view, Yi Qingfeng cheered, "Wow, there are so many mushrooms." As he spoke, he ran over with a bamboo basket.

Grandma carefully uprooted the mushrooms and put them into the bamboo basket, Yi Qingfeng put down the bamboo basket and said eagerly: "Grandma, I also want to find mushrooms." As she walked towards a nearby pine tree, Grandma said, "Don't go far." ”

Yi Qingfeng replied, "Got it." Saying that, he pulled out the weeds under the pine tree like his grandmother and found it, but unfortunately he found nothing in several places, and he was slightly disappointed and said to Yi Qinglian not far away: "Sister, have you found the mushroom?"

Yi Qinglian nodded and said, "I found it." As he spoke, he proudly raised the mushroom in his hand

Yi Qingfeng secretly said in his heart: "No, I have to find mushrooms." As he spoke, he continued to work hard to find it.

"Hard work pays off" Yi Qingfeng finally found a large cluster of mushrooms under a thick pine tree, and he called out ecstatically: "Grandma, come here, I found a lot of mushrooms." ”

Grandma rushed to hear the news, and helped him pull up all the mushrooms and put them in the bamboo basket, time passed bit by bit, and soon it was close to noon, grandma looked at the basket full of mushrooms and said happily: "Qingfeng, Qinglian, let's go back, it's time to cook and eat." ”

Yi Qingfeng wiped the beads of sweat oozing from his forehead and said happily: "Let's go, go home for dinner" said and walked happily behind his grandmother.

After lunch, Yi Qingfeng slept as usual, and after getting up, he took a villain book and sat on the chair in front of the door to read it intently, and after looking at it for a while, Jiang Xi suddenly ran over and said: "Qingfeng, let's go to the pond under the slope of the village to catch tadpoles and play, Liu Ronghua and Gong Wu have already gone." ”

Yi Qingfeng closed the villain's book and said, "Okay, I'll put the book away and go with you right away." As he spoke, he quickly put the villain book back into the house and followed Jiang Xi towards the pond at the bottom of the slope of the village.

The two ran to the edge of the pond to take a look, only to see that the pond was rippling, and pieces of green lotus leaves came out of the water to fill the whole pond, and groups of tadpoles in the pond were swimming happily in the water.

Liu Ronghua and Gong Wu were squatting by the pond to catch tadpoles, and they greeted Jiang Xi and Yi Qingfeng excitedly when they saw them: "Come here, you two come here, there are a lot of tadpoles, come and fish." ”

Yi Qingfeng spread his hands into the water and fished towards a group of tadpoles swimming, the tadpoles seemed to sense the danger and swam away quickly with their slender tails, Yi Qingfeng said in disappointment: "These tadpoles run so fast, I can't catch them." ”

Liu Ronghua said: "You be patient, you can get it by trying a few more times." ”

Yi Qingfeng patiently tried a few times, and sure enough, he succeeded in catching a few tadpoles, watching the tadpoles swimming between the palms of his hands, Yi Qingfeng felt very interesting.

was playing, and suddenly Jiang Xi shouted loudly: "Come and see, there are a lot of fish in this canal." ”

Yi Qingfeng usually likes to eat fish the most, and as soon as he heard that there were fish, he immediately ran over, only to see a group of stunned fish swimming around in the clear ditch, Yi Qingfeng said: "Let's quickly catch these fish, take them home and stir-fry them with chili peppers, it's delicious." ”

Jiang Xi said: "How can I fish without tools?"

Yi Qingfeng thought for a while and said, "You wait, I'll go home and get it." As he spoke, he ran home with a cigarette.

After a while, Yi Qingfeng ran back quickly with a bamboo bucket in one hand and a small bucket in the other, and he panted and said, "The tools are here, let's start fishing." ”

Jiang Xi said: "Okay, let's assign the task, Liu Ronghua and Gong Wu are responsible for going into the water to drive the fish over, and Qingfeng and I are responsible for scooping up the fish with a bucket." ”

Liu Ronghua and Gong Wu nodded and stepped into the water together to catch the fish, Jiang Xi and Yi Qingfeng put the bamboo bucket into the ditch together and waited for the fish to throw themselves into the net. ”

Yi Qingfeng had already prepared, and vigorously lifted the bamboo bucket out of the water, as the water flow of the white flower leaked out from the bottom of the bucket, a few live fish came into everyone's eyes, Yi Qingfeng hurriedly poured all the fish into the bucket, and caught several fish as soon as he made a move, everyone seemed very excited, Yi Qingfeng said: "Let's continue to walk behind the canal, there must be many fish behind." As he spoke, he lifted the bamboo bucket and walked towards the back.

As expected, Yi Qingfeng and the four of them then caught a lot of fish in the ditch behind, and the sky gradually darkened, and everyone looked at a group of white fish in the small bucket and said happily: "There are fish to eat at night." He walked briskly towards home.