When his brother went to school, Zhang Xingming became an idle person, and he had nothing to do every day. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info let him do so many things every day like his brother, and he could lie on the kang. In his previous life, he often followed his brother to mixed classes, but he was not that interested at this time.

Stretch every day, move a little, exercise muscles appropriately, run a few steps, follow grandpa to the vegetable field to hoe and hoe grass, and the idle body is itchy. Because his brother is not there, he usually can't go out of the yard alone, and the space can only be put aside first, and he has no chance to practice.

At the end of September, the team bought a TV and came back, saying that it would be played in the team yard every night, and all the villagers could watch it, and they would bring their own small benches.

Grandma was a little excited when she heard the news, she had never seen TV in her life. Grandpa didn't show anything, anyway, grandma said to go, he never objected to grandma's decision. My brother was also excited, and he even ate much faster. Zhang Xingming was a little worried, he had no interest at all, he had to follow, walk back and forth for a few miles, and he had to touch the dark, but he definitely couldn't go and let him stay at home alone.

After dinner in the evening, the family of four carried a small bench on their backs and entered the fort along the driveway.

At this time, the TVs were all black and white, and the one the team bought was quite large, fourteen inches, and I didn't see any brand.

There were a lot of people in the courtyard, squatting and sitting, and the children were getting into the crowd of adults, and from time to time they were scolded or slapped a few times.

Zhang Xingming and his family were far away, but they came relatively early, and they sat in the front, and they didn't know what they could look at with such a fourteen-inch play, and they couldn't hear the sound if they were a little farther away.

At half past six, the TV was turned on, and the screen was full of snowflake ideas, and nothing could be seen. The people in the team adjusted the antenna from room to room. At this time, the TV programs were all wireless signals, and if you have to set up an antenna more than ten meters high, it may not be able to collect it well.

The TV snowflakes kept flashing, the antenna kept shouting, and finally when it was dark, there was a little shadow, the Peking Opera movie "Baolian Lantern", but the beginning had not been played for ten minutes, and the drama had not heard a few words, and there was a big snowflake on the screen, and then until ten o'clock the TV was turned off, there was no serious shadow, either the snowflakes were shaking, tilted, distorted, and the sound was not at all, so when the TV was turned off and looked back, the people sitting behind them did not leave, they were all staring quietly. In this era, there is really a lack of entertainment.

After the end of the game, everyone's mood was not high, and several people in the team had black faces, their faces were a little big, and it cost the team hundreds of dollars, and with such a result, there must be someone to make trouble with them.

Since then, I haven't seen this TV in Zhangjiabao, and it is estimated that it was also placed in the house of a revolutionary officer, Zhong Lao's family bought it by himself, although he didn't know whose money it was, but it was impossible for people to take this one.

I have to cross the river when I leave the courtyard, there is a stone bridge here, I don't know what year it was built, and it collapsed after the nineties.

After crossing the bridge and walking down more than a hundred meters, you have to cross the river again, there is no bridge, only a few stones in the water, step on and jump over. It's definitely no problem during the day, but in the middle of the night, it's more than ten o'clock, the ink is the same as dark, and the flashlight can only shine out the big ball in front of you.

When I arrived at the river, my grandfather didn't make a sound, and I carried the three of them across the river one by one, wading through the water, and the whole pants and shoes were wet, Zhang Xingming felt that my grandfather was shivering, you must know that it was already very cold in the middle of the night at the end of September, and it was windy in the northeast, and most of the body was wet, and when the mountain wind blew, I could imagine how cold and uncomfortable my grandfather was.

The sorghum on both sides of the road is already taller than people, it looks gloomy at night, swaying in the wind, there is no need to set up any scenes to shoot ghost movies, a family of four is walking in the middle of the sorghum field with a small bench, Zhang Xingming was carried by his grandfather, and he has been scolding the team in his heart.

A few days after the TV incident, when the autumn harvest came to an end, the team set up a stage in the courtyard and invited a theater troupe to come to the castle to sing, which can be regarded as compensation for the last TV incident, and the money team of the theater troupe came out.

In fact, many places in China's rural areas have the habit of watching dramas after the autumn harvest, but in some places there are more pomp and circumstance, and in some places, they are simple and not so particular. Like Lu Xun's social drama, it is a clan activity, and the pomp rules are very big. Zhangjiabao also sang after the autumn of previous years, but the money for the opera troupe had to be shared by the whole team, and it was not much, a few cents for a family. But you must know that in the countryside at this time, you can eat a bag of salt for a few cents for more than half a year.

On the day of the play, the whole castle came to the courtyard with a small bench, and the stage was already set up, and everyone sat down around the stage. This is much more lively than watching TV, the children climb the trees, climb the houses, and even squat on the team warehouse, I don't know how to get up, there are two stories high.

The whole courtyard was brightly lit, with more than a dozen hundred-watt light bulbs hung, and before the play started, gongs sounded from time to time, in exchange for a burst of noise from people.

At half past seven, the gong officially started, and there was no host, the actors themselves started the whole game, but the costumes were still in place, all wearing costumes of unknown eras, some were red and green, and the handkerchiefs in their hands were shining golden under the lights.

First of all, a door, double back door, the actor's singing skills are quite good, the female voice is crisp and charming, the male voice is full and transparent, singing and twisting, and the cheerful tune resounded throughout the castle: the first month is also Li'er, the first month is the third or fourth child, the club has annual leave, and the two of us go to the door......

Double return door and small New Year's greetings are two people familiar with the whole country's two-person turn small hats, that is, pass the door, and are a small section of the opening warm-up, which is mainly cheerful and beautiful. As an aside, the two have been around for hundreds of years, and after the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, it was circulated in the Yibei region, and later it was produced that Luozi and Pingju were produced.

There are also some authentic masters who comment on opera, saying that Pingju came from Tangshan, and it has nothing to do with the two-person transfer in HBL County, saying that Pingju and the two-person turn are sisters, and they both came from Tangshan, I don't understand, how did the two-person turn for more than 300 years come from the Luozi in the twenties? If you are interested, you can listen to the two of them on the Internet, and then listen to the commentary, and your heart is naturally clear. But there is one thing, cross talk really comes from Luozi.

After a passage aroused the enthusiasm of the whole castle people, the main drama without nonsense began, Liang Saijin rolled noodles, telling the story of an aspiring young man who studied hard and was finally admitted to Tsinghua University and Peking University and entered the government, and returned to his hometown to find his long-lost mother and sister. After the three actors played for more than an hour, the audience below was crying and laughing, and their slaps were red.

After singing a main play, there are two more short segments and a wonderful clown mouth, which is the image of a piece of white on the bridge of the nose in the commentary. The clown stepped down, with a big gong and another big play, splashing water in front of the horse. It's about a dick scumbag, married a wife who dislikes the poor and loves the rich, and the wife found a rich one to kick him, this guy was angry and tried to be strong, and finally was admitted to Tsinghua University and Peking University to enter the government, returned to his hometown in brocade, found his ex-wife, pretended to be forced to put on music, and was ashamed of the story. There are no tears in this scene, it is all laughter, and there is a very interesting scene in it: a few days ago, I was meditating at home, who knew that as soon as I opened the door, a mother-in-law came in, and when I entered the house, I took off my shoes, and when I took off my shoes, I asked her what she was doing, and she said that she wanted to be with me. I can't remember it later, you can go and listen to it, it's a good play. The biggest feature of the two-person drama is that it is not boring, the rhythm is very bright, and there is a lot of baggage.

When the play ended, it was almost midnight, and the temperature difference between day and night in the Northeast was very large, and it was already very cold. The actor's costume is very thin, and when he got off the stage, he directly covered his coat and shook it, and someone close to the castle went to get hot water to give them the cold. This kind of opera troupe is also a local farmer, who is a family of several generations singing opera, and comes out to various forts and villages to catch up with the scene when the farm is not working.

As the flow of people crossed the bridge and then the river, this time it was not a family of four, but a few families also came, and a large group of people carried benches, talking loudly and walking back. Today's moon is very large, and it shines brightly, and you can see people's faces without even a flashlight. The men of several families are strong men, and the ones with small backs to help the old easily cross the river. Some people hummed the play they just listened to while walking, which attracted everyone's laughter, and it was lively along the way, and it didn't take long to get home.

A good night's sleep.

When I got up the next morning, there was a thin layer of frost hanging from the windowpane, and I could see through the glass, the fence, the earth, the trees, everything in my sight. Dress, wash your face and eat, and when you go out to the yard, the sun is shining, the frost has dispersed, the damp places in the corners of the ground have frozen, and the stars are shining in the sun, and winter is not far away.

When the dew and frost fall, the grapes in the yard can be eaten.

A few days ago, the fruit was still clear green, but after the frost, it has turned into a deep purple, and there is a thin layer of fruit cream on the skin, hanging under the wide green leaves, like a string of jade, crystal clear.

The grapes are a local variety, with small fruits, about the size of an adult's little finger, but they are sweet and have few seeds.

There are still some fruit trees in front of and behind the house of grandma's house, some of which are moved out of the mountains, some of which are planted by grandpa, hawthorn, walnut, apricot, plum, cherry, pear, are all common local varieties. The fruits produced in the Northeast are not big, but the taste is very full, and then slowly it becomes less and less, and the market is full of big and good imported species, and you can no longer taste the taste of the mountains. I guess it's because the appearance is not attractive enough. When he grew up, Zhang Xingming basically didn't eat fruits, and he couldn't find that feeling and taste, so he simply didn't eat them.

On the edge of the ground behind the house, there is an apple tree, which is Zhang Xingming's favorite, because on this apple tree, it bears pears, apple-like pears, the taste is very unique, crisp, juicy and sweet, it is grafted by grandpa himself, and the pear tree and the apple tree are grafted together, that is, there are not many fruits every year, if there are twenty or thirty fruits on the big tree, half red and half green after ripening, you can smell the fragrance emanating from the tree from a distance.

With my brother holding scissors and a small dustpan, I came under the grape trellis.

When he got to the bottom of the grape trellis, looking up at the bunches of grapes hanging in the air, Zhang Xingming was a little worried, he couldn't reach it, it was more than two meters high, more than twice as much as himself. Grandpa didn't have any interest in this thing, and he didn't even look at it. At most, it was to see that he and his brother were hungry, and they went to pick three or two bunches, and wanted them to spend half a day picking the full shelves of grapes? can only be self-reliant with his brother.

My brother is also a lazy person, he never picks grapes when he wants to eat them, he often climbs on the grape trellis, he doesn't use his hands, he directly uses his mouth to bite on the shelf, a few bites are a bunch, gnaw a few bunches, and climb down satisfied, leaving a few bare stems on the vine. Every year, most of the grapes die directly on the shelves.

Now that's it, the elder brother stood there with a frown, holding a small dustpan, and said, "What are you doing with this thing? Pick them all, you can eat so much? This thing eats too much and kills your mouth. "If you eat too much fruit with too strong taste, your mouth will be uncomfortable, and there will be a slight stinging pain.

"I'm going to make wine, wine, have you drunk it? Tell you, if you don't pick it with me, you won't have your share." Zhang Xingming looked at the grapes with scissors and said.

"The wine is not good, I have drunk it, but it is spicy, and it is uncomfortable for several days after drinking, so I don't want it. Pick it yourself. My brother immediately threw down the dustpan and was about to run.

"Don't regret it, the wine made by the grapes is sweet and delicious, and you will definitely not have your share when the time comes. ”

"Sweet?"

"Hmm. ”

"Delicious, certainly not spicy?"

"It's delicious, it's said it's sweet, and it's spicy. ”

"That'...... Just pick some and tell you not to bluff me, bluff me to cut you. ”

"I can't reach it. Zhang Xingming lifted the scissors upwards and hinged them a few times.

"It's okay, there's a ladder in the barn, let's go and carry it over. As soon as the elder brother said that he was full of wit, he led Zhang Xingming to the granary in the vegetable field in front, climbed up the stone under the warehouse, and dragged out a small ladder from it. In order to prevent rats, the mouth of the granary is opened on the wall of one meter and five high, and it is bare on all sides, and people have to climb into it, and there is a ladder inside.

"What are you doing with that?" said Grandpa's voice behind him.

The elder brother dragged the ladder in his hand, his little face was red, and he turned his head to look at his grandfather and said, "Pick, Portugal, grapes." ”

Grandpa was happy and said, "You can't use this for picking grapes, this is too short to stand." It's not in vain. He came and picked up his brother from behind, put him on the ground, leaned in and straightened the ladder, and said, "Don't you eat all the things on the vine? Why do you have to pick them again?

The elder brother waved his hand and said, "Pick it all, let Er Ming make wine and drink, but it's sweet grandpa, it's not spicy at all." ”

Grandpa asked Zhang Xingming: "Second child, do you know how to make wine?"

Zhang Xingming nodded and said, "Yes, it's easy, let's finish drinking wine, it's good for your body." ”

Grandpa stretched out his hand to put his arm around Zhang Xingming's neck, and said as he walked towards the courtyard: "That's not bad, then grandpa is waiting to drink your wine, see if it tastes good." ”

All of a sudden, the whole family mobilized, and spent the morning picking the grapes on the shelves, piling them up in a dustpan, and the big dustpan was packed with four.

Zhang Xingming instructed his brother to pick grapes, pick out the bad ones, and put the good grapes in a large pot. Let grandma take an empty jar of pickled vegetables out, scald it with hot water, and wipe it clean inside and out. Let grandpa take out the meat grinder and blanch it with hot water. Then dry the jar and meat grinder.

At this time, there was no pollution, and there were no pesticides, so Zhang Xingming directly set up a meat grinder to twist it, and directly twisted it into the jar. It was a little more than three-fifths of the height of the altar, and when he found that there were still a lot of grapes, he scratched his head and said, "Grandma, there is still an altar in our house?"

Grandma looked around, but it was gone, but there was a big glass bottle brought by my father, which was a little smaller. Zhang Xingming looked at it, forget it, it can be used, so he asked his grandmother to wash it and bring it over, wiped the inside of the bottle, dried it for a while, and put the remaining grapes into it, filling it with four-fifths of a bottle high.

Then I added white sugar, which is not an accurate standard, estimated about 20% of the weight of the grapes, added it and stirred evenly, and took the liquor that my grandmother usually drinks, added a small cup in the jar and the glass bottle, and then tied the mouth of the jar and bottle with gauze, and put it on the stove flue. The temperature in this place is a little higher, and in winter, the outside temperature is minus 4 or 5 degrees, and there is no way to ferment. The fermentation temperature of the wine should be around minus 25 degrees, which is not much worse here. I worked until dinner, and finally got it done, but I used so much sugar to make my grandmother feel distressed enough. White saccharin is expensive these days. It's worth a lot more than that little grape, and in my grandmother's heart, this is a loss-making deal.

After dinner, I put down the quilt and lay down on it and listened to the radio. Sleeping on the kang in the northeast, the quilt is put away when you get up in the morning, and when you want to sleep at night, clean the kang and then spread it. My brother leaned in front of Zhang Xingming and asked, "What can I drink before, that wine." Zhang Xingming said: "Next week, the day you don't go to school again, it's almost the same." It must be sweet, when did I coax you. ”

The elder brother turned over, scratched the old cat with his foot, and said, "What if it doesn't taste good?

"What should I pay you?"

"You pay me...... Compensate me, I'll throw you into the thatched building, haha, throw it in the thatched building, you have to be careful, and see what you do then. "The toilet in the Northeast countryside is called thatched building, and the Yanhai area of Dandong is called thatched.

"Then I'll throw you in a pigsty and let you sleep with the pigs at night. ”

"No, the pigs don't cover the quilt at night, it's cold. I won't sleep with the pigs, I'll throw you in the thatched building, and I'll run away when I'm done, and you won't be able to find me when the time comes. ”

"Where are you going?"

"I'm running...... I'll go to Zhangjiabao. ”

"Then I'll go to Zhangjiabao to find you. ”

"That's not good, you didn't know that I went to Zhangjiabao at that time, you couldn't find me. ”

Zhang Xingming coaxed his brother like a child, said countless nonsense, and his brother fell asleep.