Chapter 22: Patriarchy is not enough
In the words of grandma: Spring was played before this year, and the spring neck was short. The twenty-third day of the first month was stung, and the temperature rose quickly. Grandpa also went to the vegetable garden to prepare the land, and the spinach began to sprout new leaves, a tender green.
There are fewer people in the family, and the younger brother is still young and ignorant, so Yoyo finally found an opportunity to cheat and began to show his skills. Mix white noodles with mixed noodles, for fear that grandma will see it and put away some of it first. From time to time, secretly add some white noodles to the good noodle jar and some oil to the oil tank.
Feeding pigs, sheep, and chickens is open and hanging again and again, and feeding the younger brother is even more golden-fingered, according to the scientific parenting encyclopedia provided by the brain, all kinds of nutrients are stuffed into the mouth of the younger brother in an all-round way. The father and mother who raised the younger brother are the dearest, and the big sister is the biggest, and she has become a leisurely follower, and even when she sleeps at night, she moves to her grandmother's kang and is next to her sister.
Grandma is really good at living, and she can see it just like cooking. There are three kinds of steamed buns in a pot every day, and the white noodles are made for Didi to make two white steamed buns, and then mixed with some miscellaneous noodles and twisted into a flower nest, which is eaten by grandpa and Youyou and Haohao, and the pure mixed noodles are eaten by grandma and parents.
"Wow, wow, wow" At dinner, the second grandmother's house came from the cry of Si Ni Guiping, and she followed her grandmother over to see, it turned out that she was competing with her brother Baojing for food.
"You just favor my brother, I ran behind my father for a while, and I was so cold that my nose was strained. Mother, you scoop a full bowl for my brother, just scoop a bowl of thin soup for me, my hungry stomach rumbles at night, and I can't sleep comfortably. The more Gui Ping spoke, the more aggrieved she became, and she cried again.
"How old are you and still ignorant, your brother is a boy who eats a lot, and he has to get up at night to help your father feed the livestock, and he can do it if he can't eat enough. The second grandmother persuaded her daughter.
Baojing graduated from primary school last year, and saw that his family was in difficulty and did not go to junior high school, so he followed the second master to help feed the livestock.
You You saw that his soup bowl contained a kind of wild vegetable about the same thickness and fragrance, and on the long white roots, there were tender green leaves the size of a finger's belly. Grandma said that it is called potato flour seedling, which is a kind of weed, which germinates early in spring, and the tender seedlings and roots can also be hungry, and they can't eat it when they grow up and are bitter.
The second master went to the spring land that was ploughed outside the production embankment to rake the ground, and raked out the long roots of the potato flour seedlings, Gui Ping followed behind to pick them up, and the second grandmother mixed them into the rice to satisfy her hunger in order to save some food.
"Second grandma, the child is growing up, and the nights are long in winter, so you can put more noodles to make them full. Grandma persuaded.
"Xiuqin, you also know the situation at home, your second master and I are not in good health, the family lacks labor, and the food is not as much as others, and his sisters are all big meals, where is there enough to eat.
In the past few years, I went out in the spring to ask for two or three months of food, and in the past two years, when the child is older, it is time to find a family (in-law's family), so that her sisters grow up well, I can't delay the child because of the food, but I have to be able to save it.
Don't work at night, eat less. During the day, you have to work to eat enough, so as not to hurt your body. We are poor and have fallen into a problem, and the child has suffered a great sin with a useless adult like us. The second grandmother burst into tears as she spoke.
"Mother, don't shed tears, I don't fight with my brother, hurry up and run faster, pick up more. Gui Ping took her mother's hand and said with a crying voice.
Youyou's heart was warm when he listened, and the indifferent temperament he had cultivated since childhood began to change, and he was in the mood to be helpful for the first time. It was decided that tomorrow he would follow the second master to the river beach to implement his forage plan, plant oats and alfalfa, and actively respond to the call of the great leader to vigorously develop the pig breeding business.
"Grandma, you can also feed the pigs, my grandma said that feeding the pigs can be sold for money, and the pig manure can also be exchanged for work. "Yoyo comes up with an idea. Grandma called the second grandmother, and called the old grandma leisurely.
"I can't afford to feed it, my family can't eat enough, how can there be anything to feed the pigs. ”
"Grandma said that pigs eat grass, and my brother and I went to cut grass for pigs to eat. ”
"Silly boy, just feeding grass pigs can't grow, and you have to feed food. The second grandmother sighed.
"Second grandma, why don't you feed a pig this year, in the past two years, there have been more river flats in our village, and there are too many carrots to eat, I estimate that I can feed a bigger pig, and I only remembered to feed the pig this year." Grandma also persuaded the second grandmother to feed the pigs.
"I can't feed it, my family is so poor that I don't even have money to eat salt and light a fire, I borrow money to save my life when I'm sick, and I can't open my mouth when I borrow money for pigs. The second grandmother said worriedly.
The next day, Yoyo was clamoring to go to the river beach with Guiping to dig potato flour seedlings, but her grandmother was so entangled that she couldn't help it, so she found a small basket for her and handed her over to the second master. Didi also wanted to follow, and was secretly stuffed with two pieces of toffee by Yoyo and coaxed to his father.
The second master put the rake on the cart (a kind of wooden cart with flat and two ends in the middle, like a sleigh in the northeast), the rake teeth downward, and put a basket on the rake, and put a layer of wheat straw in the basket, so that Youyou can sit in the basket and put the ox on it and set off.
The willow trees on the side of the road began to sprout, and the soft branches swayed in the wind, and the goose yellow looked from afar, revealing vitality. Ah, spring is coming. Sitting on the cart with emotion, it is much more interesting than the farm tour in later generations.
The ox pulled the cart and walked slowly, and the second master solved the riddle to Youyou and Gui Ping: "A child, wearing a red jacket and red cloth shirt, where do you go up? Are you coming back? The bones are coming back, and the meat is not coming back. ”
You can't guess, just look at Gui Ping. Gui Ping prompted "it's a red thing", and it seems that she knows.
"Red lanterns?"
"It's not. Gui Ping shook her head
"Red cannons?"
"Not really. ”
"Red candle?" Youyou shook his head after speaking, making Gui Ping laugh.
"It's red dates. Gui Ping solved the mystery. Then he said a riddle: "A red date, three rooms can't fit, open the door, run out." ”
This Yoyo knows that grandma told her. She didn't think the lights were on at home, and her grandmother told her the riddle.
"I know this, it's the lamp. ”
"Then you know no, a child is two fingers high, and the ping pong sound is gone. ”
"I don't know, I would guess that a child is two fingers tall and has a pockmarked face. It's peanuts."
"Think about it first, you said it just now. ”
Yoyo recalled what he had guessed just now, "I know, it's a firecracker." ”
"And this, the hemp house, the red tent, in which sat the fat white man. ”
Youyou was stuck again, it was not right to guess everything, Gui Ping laughed at her, "It's so stupid, didn't you just say it?"
"Peanuts. Yoyo thought about it for a moment and replied loudly.
The river beach was empty, and there was not even a single figure. The wind blew very cold on the body, and I sneezed twice from the cold. The second master told her to run away to warm up, and it was cool outside the river.
The potato flour seedlings only show a tender tip, and they can only be seen when they are close, and the long roots are particularly tender, and they will break when they are pulled. In the harrowed field, the rake teeth uproot the potato flour seedlings, and the white and tender float on the ground, which is easy to see. Gui Ping ran after the rake, and when she saw it, she picked it up and put it in the basket.
When the rake stopped, the second master lifted the rake up, tore the hanging weeds from the rake teeth, and piled them up on the ground. Running slowly, he picked potato rice in the weeds.
Hundreds of acres of barren river flats are sparsely populated with willows and patches of weeds and wild vegetables, and the wind blows the leaves of dry grass on the ground.
Don't be afraid of a large area, invest more intelligent machines and you can get it in one night.