Chapter 3: Eternal Childhood
After collecting the patent fee, seven-year-old Tang Zhidong has a lot of pocket money in his hand, so Ah Si's homework book, Xiao Wu's pencil, and Seventh Sister's candy are all provided by Tang Zhidong. In addition to the bombardment of these materials, everyone usually comes to ask Tang Zhidong if they don't understand anything in their studies, and they don't need to go to the teacher at all. In addition to the knowledge of textbooks, Tang Zhidong will inadvertently teach his friends a lot of extracurricular knowledge when he is playing.
Although Tang Zhidong is an old man in his forties, as a seven-year-old child, he still has to play with his peers. He is still very happy to be able to enjoy the joy of childhood again. He is the well-deserved head of these peers in the village. Many new games were invented by Tang Zhidong.
One of the games that boys and girls often play is running a house, where a boy and a girl pretend to be a couple.
Children in rural areas often see the adults in the family doing things because of the small house at home, so when playing the husband and wife game, it is also a boy and a girl who take off their clothes and lie on the same bed together, and what to do next, the two children don't know anything, just sleep together.
In the previous life, Tang Zhidong and Seventh Sister also played this game, and he never forgot that scene until he became an adult.
In this life, the seventh sister also asked Tang Zhidong to play the game of running a family together. Tang Zhidong did not refuse, and once again played this unforgettable game with Seventh Sister. This is just an innocent friendship between two children, without any erosity and sex.
It was one afternoon, and the adults went to work in the fields. The sun was shining outside the house, the temperature was also very high, and Tang Zhidong and Seventh Sister were wearing short sleeves.
At the beginning of the game, of course, the bride was picked up first, Tang Zhidong folded a small umbrella with a newspaper, blocked the top of the seventh sister, and brought the seventh sister into the door of his house. The second step was to worship the church, the two pretended to bow a few times, and after pretending to eat, they entered the room where Tang Zhiqiang lived. The final step, of course, is to go to bed. The seventh sister stripped naked all of a sudden, without a little shame, Tang Zhidong moved a little slowly, and was destroyed by the seventh sister.
When the two bright villains got into bed and lay side by side on the bed, Tang Zhidong didn't know what to say. The seventh sister asked with some curiosity: "Brother Dong, you know everything, so do you know what the adults do in bed." ”
Tang Zhidong was taken aback by the seventh sister's question, and thought, I know everything, but I can't tell you, even if you do, you don't understand. Tang Zhidong replied: "I don't know, let's not care about the affairs of adults, and nature will know later." ”
The seventh sister didn't ask this question, but said, "Then go to sleep." ”
Neither of them fell asleep, and they pretended to lie down for more than ten minutes before getting dressed.
This game is only done once, and it will not be repeated. Although this time was not as memorable as Tang Zhidong in the previous life, it also made him feel the beauty of childhood and the innocent friendship between partners.
Ah Si and Seventh Sister also played a game of running a family, but Xiao Wu and Seventh Sister didn't play, because once Xiao Wu had a few pieces of candy, and Seventh Sister asked him for it, but he didn't give it, and Seventh Sister remembered him for a lifetime, so she didn't want to be his bride.
Now, in addition to feeding the chickens at home, the children have another way to make money. Someone in the town buys sun-dried honeysuckle. Tangjia Village is surrounded by mountains, and the honeysuckle on the mountain can be seen everywhere, and picking the honeysuckle to dry and sell it is an easy way to make money that all the children in the village like.
When the honeysuckle is in full bloom, every Sunday, Tang Zhidong takes his sister and three partners to go up the mountain to pick honeysuckle. Holding a large cloth bag in his hand, he plucks the honeysuckle into the bag, and sometimes, he has to be careful to touch the wild beehive.
Wild bee hives are generally only the size of a fist, and most of the wild bees inside go out to work, but there are still a small number of wild bees. If we come across a wild beehive, we kids usually just throw things away and run. After a while, I went back and picked up the bag. Generally, they can't run away from wild bees, so they always have to be stung out of a swollen bag, go back to the woman who feeds the child, squeeze some milk, apply the stinged area, and after two days it will magically heal.
There are two or three catties of honeysuckle picked every Sunday, and it takes only three or four taels to dry it in the sun, and it takes a month to get together enough to get together one catty to dry, and then, everyone happily goes to the town three or four miles away to sell it.
The purchase price of dried honeysuckle is two yuan per kilogram, and everyone can earn more than one yuan per month. Everyone was very happy, the children could not save the money, and they spent it in the town that day. Ah Si likes to buy small toys, Xiao Wu likes to eat preserved fruits, and Seventh Sister likes to eat candy.
Tang Zhidong took aim at the bookstore's set of thirty-two villain books "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", one is six cents and five, and he buys two copies each time. Of course, books can be lent to companions to read, but they are required to be protected, Tang Zhidong is preparing to preserve these villain books, thirty years later, they are also valuable things, and they are very commemorative.
In '84, the biggest thing in the village was that there was electricity, and every family began to use electric lights, and now they no longer need to light the smoking oil lamp when they write homework and read books at night.
Of the more than 20 households in the village, none of them have a television set, and only the 12 uncle's family has a video recorder, which used to use large batteries, but now that there is electricity, it can finally be played every day.
Tang Zhidong has a lot of good songs in his memory, and he also knows that now is the most popular time for Hong Kong pop songs, and he can find some gold in this regard. Considering that this may affect his peaceful life, Tang Zhidong still gave up this way to make a fortune, anyway, there will be a way to make money in the future.
Recently, the eyes of the friends have been on a piece of land on the top of a hill far from the village, where someone has planted a lot of peach trees, which have just been planted.
Ah Si accidentally discovered this fruit seedling field, and he came back to tell Tang Zhidong. Tang Zhidong decided to lead his comrades to steal a few peach saplings from there to his own field, and in a few years there would be peaches to eat.
Xiao Wu and Qi Mei also want to eat peaches, so they want to move a few plants. A few partners together, Xiao Wu and the seventh sister looked at the wind, and it was Tang Zhidong and Ah Si who did it, there were about more than 300 seedlings in the entire peach forest, and Tang Zhidong only removed one every ten plants, so that others could not see that there were no seedlings.
The process of transplanting seedlings was very smooth, Tang Zhidong selected three, and Ah Si, Xiao Wu, and Seventh Sister each had two plants. After that, the friends had a new job, and they had to go to see the growth of their two fruit trees every day.
Tang Zhidong's family's chicken raising business is ready to expand again, and now each batch is 300. Tang Liuhua's chicken feed has been continuously improved, and the effect is getting better and better, of course, for the formula of the feed, Tang Zhidong often unintentionally puts forward some opinions. For example, how to add calcium to the feed. Combined with the fact that there are many snails in the village, Tang Zhidong proposed that the snail shells should be dried together with the meat, and then beaten into powder and added, which can not only achieve good results, but also save money. This idea was accepted by Tang Liuhua, and in the end he was rewarded with five yuan, of course, Tang Zhidong worked hard to get it.
By eighty-five years, Tang Zhidong was already a third-grade student in primary school, and his height and weight were better than his peers. After Tang Zhidong and his sister kept nagging, Tang Liuhua finally agreed to buy the first black and white fifteen-inch TV in the village, Venus brand, for more than 300 yuan. At present, many families in rural areas do not save more than 100 yuan a year.
With TV, life at night is enriched.
After eight o'clock every night, both adults and children basically gather at Tang Zhidong's house and wait to watch the series. In order to make it easier for everyone to watch TV, Tang Liuhua also specially bought a few benches, each of which can seat four or five people. There are twenty or thirty people watching TV at home every night, and it's like a small home theater.
With TV, my friends no longer go up the mountain to pick flowers and go down to the river to catch shrimp on Sundays, and they basically sit in front of the TV and watch their favorite cartoons after eating.
I'm used to seeing color and 3D, now I want to watch black and white, I'm used to watching blockbusters, and now I want to see some very earthy things, Tang Zhidong really can't stand it. I don't want to watch it, but I can't detach myself from the people, I have to accompany my friends in front of the TV every time, they are watching TV with relish, and Tang Zhidong is basically in a fugue.
In order to pull his friends away from the TV, Tang Zhidong had to find a way to find some fun games or things. Of course, the boys liked to fight, and often used a stick as a gun, and in groups of two or three, they began to charge and occupy the hills. For camouflage, a hat made of leaves must also be worn on the head.
Tang Zhidong can make all kinds of guns, wood, grass, bamboo, ***, water guns, marbleguns, and composite slingshots. Even the girls like the guns made by Tang Zhidong, take one, and get over the addiction of female soldiers.
With these toys and lots of new ways to play, the friends are running all over the mountains again, and sometimes, they have to fight at night. Night fighting is very good at training people's courage, and sometimes it is necessary to lie alone in a dark place, motionless for ten minutes.
Although everyone plays every day, with Tang Zhidong's guidance and tips, the academic performance of several friends is good, not to mention that they often score 100 points, they are basically above 80 points, which is still rare in rural primary schools.
My younger sister Tang Zhimei is also six years old and is about to enter the first grade. She has been going to school with her brother for the past three years, and Tang Zhidong has taught her a lot of things, the first grade of Chinese and mathematics is too simple for her, she can directly skip the second grade. In order to play with his peers, Tang Zhidong asked his father to let his sister start from the first grade.